Famous People With Mental Illnesses

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to fight the disease he has fought most of his life. His message was simple to families who have mentally ill children or adults, don't give up on them. His motto was, ''Believe they can get well.” Lionel lost his battle with schizophrenia and paranoia as he passed away in 1998.
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born on October 16th, 1888 in New York City. He was one of the most famous play writers of all time. Eugene suffered from clinical depression. Eugene often was placed in an Asylum or psychiatric hospital for numerous suicide attempts. He attended Princeton for one year, but was expelled. The following year Eugene enrolled at Harved University. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays: Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957). O'Neill is credited with raising American dramatic theater from its narrow origins to an art form respected ...

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with a distinct sense of humor about his ordeals. He never quite rid himself of his unique behavior, quipping that he'd "give 'em their money's worth" if the crowds came out to see him.

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) was a world famous opera singer. Like Piersall Gaetano suffered from Bipolar depression. Death to close family members plagued Gaetano throughout his life. He met his wife Virginia Vasselli while he was in Rome in the 1820's and later married her in 1828. They had three children, none of whom survived. His parents died in the mid 1830's. A year after his parents death, his wife ...

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